Portrait Of A Century
Kim Haughton
The Lilliput Press
English
Hardcover
224 Pages
254 x 304 mm
2017
ISBN 9781843517238
Kim Haughton’s new body of work Portrait of a Century offers a stunning portrait of contemporary Ireland as it reflects upon the centenary of the nation’s birth in 1916. Resilience, intimacy, youth – these 100 photographs portray an Ireland at the precipice of change. The poet, the sporting hero, the hopeful youth and nostalgic aged – Haughton’s vision of Ireland is one eclipsing past and present, a vision of the Irish nation seen through the prism of its people. Between 2015 and 2016, one hundred people were invited to participate in Portrait of a Century, each born in a different year, beginning with T. K Whitaker (b. 1916) and ending in 2015. The resulting images are a fascinating depiction of contemporary Ireland, reflected in the diversity of its people and sense of nationhood and culture today.
In spring 2017 the entire collection will be published in Haughton’s first monograph. The publication will coincide with a major exhibition of the work at the National Museum, Collins Barracks, to be launched by the President of Ireland.
(source: https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/portrait-of-a-century)
About the Artist
Kim Haughtonspent the early part of her career as a photojournalist covering post conflict humanitarian issues. Her work appeared in publications worldwide including The Financial Times, Der Spiegel and Vanity Fair. She holds a Masters in Photography from the University of the Arts, London. In 2015, her first solo show In Plain Sight opened at the Galley of Photography in Dublin. That same year, she was named as an Irish photographer to watch by TIME magazine who described her work as ‘at once sparse and textured’. In 2017, her first book Portrait of a Century was accompanied by a major solo exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. She is based in Dublin and New York.
(source: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/kim-haughton-highly-commended)
About the Publisher
The Lilliput Press is one of Ireland’s smallest and most prestigious publishing houses. The Lilliput Press was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell in County Westmeath. Jonathan Swift spent his summers in a house nearby, and derived the name Lilliput from a local townland. The office was moved to its present locale in Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, in 1989. More than 500 titles have appear under its imprint; these encompass art, music (both traditional and popular Irish music) architecture, autobiography and memoir, biography and history, ecology and environmentalism, essays and literary criticism, philosophy, current affairs and popular culture, fiction, drama and poetry, all broadly focused on Irish themes. They are particularly focused on publishing high quality books about Irish history, and have covered a wide range of topics in this area alone.
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(source: https://www.lilliputpress.ie/about-us)
